Comparison

FirstVoices Keyboards vs SciMath Keyboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FirstVoices Keyboards

This Indigenous language keyboard app allows users to type in over 100 languages on their Apple mobile devices. Activate custom keyboards within any application for seamless communication in your mother tongue.

Highlights
  • Supports over 100 Indigenous languages
  • Custom keyboards for any app
  • Enables communication in mother tongue
  • Works with email, social media, and word processing
  • Available for iPhone and iPad
Features
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The latest ground-breaking FirstVoices innovation from the First Peoples' Cultural Council is an Indigenous language keyboard app for Apple mobile devices. The FirstVoices Keyboard App contains keyboard software for over 100 languages, and includes every First Nations language in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus many languages in the USA. When the FirstVoices Keyboard app is installed on an iPhone or iPad, any one of the 100+ custom keyboards can be activated in any application on the device. Users are able to select their keyboard(s) of choice within their email, social media, word processing or other apps, enabling unlimited communication in their mother language. Interested in learning more about FirstVoices and our other Indigenous language apps? Please email First Peoples' Cultural Council: info@firstvoices.com.

About

SciMath Keyboard

Features
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SciMath is a keyboard for iOS and iPadOS that gives you the symbols science, mathematics, and technical writing actually need - without copying from character maps, switching apps, or settling for approximations. Every symbol is a proper Unicode character. It copies, searches, and renders correctly in every app that supports Unicode text. ONE-TIME PURCHASE. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No advertising. Ever. FOUR LAYERS ABC - Full QWERTY with extended diacriticals on long-press. French, German, Scandinavian, Spanish, Eastern European, and scholarly Latin variants. 123 - Numbers and punctuation. Long-press any digit for its superscript and subscript form. #+= - Brackets, operators, and currency symbols. sci - Scientific and mathematical symbols: Operators: degree, plus-minus, multiply, divide, approximately, not-equal, less-or-equal, greater-or-equal, square root, infinity Calculus: summation, integral, partial derivative, nabla, delta, h-bar, Angstrom, micro, ohm Logic and sets: pi, therefore, for-all, proportional, element-of, prime, perpendicular, and more Long-press sci keys for additional symbols: element-of opens not-element, subset, superset, union, intersection, empty set, and more. FOOTNOTE SYMBOLS The complete traditional footnote sequence for mathematical and legal writing, where superscript numbers would be confused with exponents or indices. KEY FLASH Toggle key flash in the SciMath app. When on, keys brighten immediately on contact with no delay, visible in direct sunlight. When off, standard iOS balloon previews appear. TRACKPAD MODE Hold the spacebar to move the text cursor precisely without tapping in the text. iPAD Pull-down secondary characters on every key. Full-width layout with more keys per row. Hide keyboard button. PRIVACY SciMath does not request Full Access and never will. It never logs keystrokes, never makes network requests, and contains no analytics or telemetry of any kind. Nothing you type ever leaves your device. THE SCIMATH APP A built-in composition workspace for building expressions at your own pace, then copying or screenshotting the result against a clean background. Light, dark, and system appearance modes.

Screenshots

FirstVoices Keyboards4 screens
SciMath Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: FirstVoices Keyboards at Free against SciMath Keyboard's $2.99. FirstVoices Keyboards also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

FirstVoices Keyboards is free to download; SciMath Keyboard costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FirstVoices Keyboards versus SciMath Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirstVoices KeyboardsSciMath Keyboard
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.1 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFirst Peoples' Heritage Language and Culture CouncilJAMES WILLIAM BRUCE SHAW

In-app purchases

None

FirstVoices Keyboards

No in-app purchases

None

SciMath Keyboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FirstVoices Keyboards free?
FirstVoices Keyboards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SciMath Keyboard free?
SciMath Keyboard costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do FirstVoices Keyboards or SciMath Keyboard have ads?
Neither FirstVoices Keyboards nor SciMath Keyboard shows ads.

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